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A Vision of Europe - Franco-German Relations during the Great Depression, 1929-1932 (Hardcover)
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A Vision of Europe - Franco-German Relations during the Great Depression, 1929-1932 (Hardcover)
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It is commonly held that the inter-war era marked little more than
a ceasefire between two world wars, with the improvement in
German-Allied relations forged at Locarno in 1925 cut short by the
global economic turmoil that followed the 1929 Wall Street Crash. A
Vision of Europe challenges this received wisdom, offering a
fundamental re-evaluation of inter-war Franco-German relations
during the Great Depression and providing a fuller understanding of
the historical origins of today's European Union. It demonstrates
that rather than lapsing into mutual recrimination and national
egotism, France and Germany engaged with the challenges of the
post-1929 slump by way of plans for a Franco-German customs union
and wider bilateral economic collaboration, whether across the
Rhine, in the French Empire, or elsewhere in Europe. These plans
were regarded as the initial steps on the road to a European Union
that would reconcile Berlin's search for national rehabilitation
with France's need for national security, so providing a means of
resolving the formidable legacies of the First World War and
Versailles Peace Settlement. Their efforts culminated in September
1931 in a formal agreement to establish a Franco-German economic
community, which included the institutional means to transform
ambition into reality. Unlike comparable post-1949 diplomacy,
however, these aspirations ended in failure, but they nonetheless
provided an invaluable, if largely unacknowledged template for the
process of (West)-European recovery in the aftermath of the Third
Reich. This finely-focused study of the exchanges between
individual politicians and diplomats, whether domestically or
across the Rhine, also examines the relationship between the
official sphere, the press, and a range of cultural associations
and initiatives. It also explores the role of key economic
associations and pressure groups whose energies were harnessed by
Paris and Berlin in the cause of rapprochement. These were complex
processes where success or failure could rest on particular
personal exchanges, a badly-timed election, or unanticipated
economic upsets that compromised diplomacy's best-laid plans.
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